James Collins

👨‍💻Backend-Focused Full-stack engineer with 7+ years of Experience

📖 About Me

7+ years of experience in developing enterprise, distributed web and mobile applications

Extensive experience in developing various web and mobile based applications using Node.JS, Python, PHP, C# and Rust.

Proficient in developing User Interface (UI) applications and professional web applications using React (React Native), Vue, Angular and Flutter.

Good oral and written communication skills, and able to work in a team environment. Highly motivated, enthusiastic, quick learner and dependable

Main skills: LangChain, ASP.NET Core, Django, DynamoDB, Azure, Angular, NextJS
Used React native-Router to turn the application into Single Page Application and utilized Axios, mobx, Lodash, and Nextjs.
Secondary responsibility was to write VB scripts and ASP.Net pages that interfaced with the database.
Worked in designing and configuration of the Azure environment and migrated legacy applications to the Azure cloud platform.
Implemented Jenkins pipeline for continuous deployments and installed and configured Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
Implemented Angular, Bootstrap, LESS, and many JQuery plugins wrapped in Angular directives.
Built web and mobile development with ASP.net, C#.net,JavaScript, jQuery, and Telerik frameworks.

Main Skills: Blockchain, Flask, Rust, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Azure, Flutter, GatsbyJS
Developed front-end applications using ReactJS, Flux, NodeJS and Docker.
Implemented features for a Flutter application to replace an aging restaurant POS client system written in VB.NET.
Familiar with Solana smart contract development, deploy using Rust and Anchor framework and integrate with Vue.
Developed the backend that became the foundation for the intersection between Web3 and FinTech.
Building proof-of-concepts on fast automation coding platforms like Gatsby with Azure and integrating with several AI modules
Built a private blockchain using Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 that enhanced data security and reduced risk exposure by 93%.
Participated in 16 decentralized social media web applications development using React, CSS, Bootstrap, and web3.js / Ethers for integrating Ethereum.

Main Skills: NextJS, NuxtJS, React Native, Tailwind CSS
Partnered with a team of 5 developers to create 14 e-commerce websites using NestJS and NodeJS in the first month on the job.
Developed Single Pages Application using HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, React Async Await, Nextjs, GraphQl, NodeJS, Socket, Tailwind CSS.
Created a responsive and mobile application using React, React Native and NuxtJS. Extensive use of native device APIs and latest UI Kits.
Developed the unit testing scripts using JEST for testing the React components using Enzyme and react test renderer.

Main Skills: ExpressJS, NestJS, Laravel, MongoDB, Redis, AWS
Designed the Backend-API using mongoose with express framework. Connected to the Mongo database using Mongoose.
Enhanced existing REST services using NodeJs, ExpressJS and Mongoose modules.
Architected a solution for migrating legacy project to the Laravel framework.
Proactively identified opportunities to leverage Redis for improved data search functions and an increase in product performance.